continuum camera holo-tracy conjecture

Conjecturally an historic-uv-ray/x-ray recording technology may be possible by examining
rocks or other hard-solids for uv-ray/x-ray tracks ... A screenwriter had suggested that
a mathematician would discover the means for direct-reviewing recent and distant time,
past; -a novel time-travel variant motif: no technology but a box, was presented;- And
being a mathematician as such, I considered its requirements:

The recording medium:

Upon examination it seems quite feasible that hard-solid medium-mass elements may detect
and correlate glancing short-uv-rays and long-wave x-rays adjusting their inner 1-s and
2-s electrons; For practical examples, the inner electrons of diamond (carbon), quartz
(oxygen and silicon), ruby (oxygen and aluminum), long-commonly used ... but not ice,
glass, being plastic, iron being heavy-mass, silver, gold, being malleable, as would
lose or not get enough track-alignment in considerable historic time to reliably decode
their remnancy. The nuclear charge of oxygen, from the example, is typically 8,
drawing its innermost 1-s electron down to 870 eV well into the x-ray range. Heavier
nuclei might detect only the much-rarer higher-energetic short x-rays and y-rays which
would also not draw much of a picture to-be detected, except perhap of building
structures, not persons who made their history. . . .

UV-ray/x-ray sources:

Inner 1-s and 2-s electrons of medium-mass elements are well-isolated from other effects,
from lower energy visual photons abundant in the 1.6-3.2 eV range, and from nonabundant
but frequent y-rays (on Earth), and very-occasional and non-correlatable neutrinos ....

UV-rays and long-wave x-rays are moderately abundant from the sun, and from atmospheric
phenomena such as lightning and electric-sparks, and meteors (plasmas), and secondary
emissions from z-rays (cosmic rays), and some artificial sources, eg. modern TV screens,
and recent-older arc-light lamps ... and maybe from natural background elemental
radiodecay ... enough to take continual pictures ....

Early technology would possibly require large unmodified samples of fairly uniform-pure
substrate, gems, to simplify the calculations; And each sample would be calibrated in
contemporary uv-ray/x-ray background, until standard variances were determined.

The detection:

UV-rays and x-rays jog deep-inner electrons, readily flipping their angular and magnetic
moments, but uncaptured because that takes even more energy, to lift the electron above
the filled 2-p orbits (if those are filled, eg. from the example, silicon and aluminum),
and, thence going on their way to more nuclei... leaving a nominally straight string
of beaded nuclei, which can be tracked and correlated in matrix arithmetic .... However,
magnetic, and thereby angular, moments are affected by slower magnetic processes, and
in short order may undo (except in peculiarly preserved specimens, not abundant).

Nevertheless, a conjecturably better possibility exists in the amount of energy
capturable from the uv-ray/x-ray through nonlinear process:- If the jog is sufficient
to knock-about the 1-s and 2-s electrons, these will reemit, until, a symmetry is found
in the double-pair interaction with the nucleus itself: a three-body resonance, that
won't emit and won't capture (except the very rare re-tracking of single atoms),
settling for the rest of history ... And, This is the primary conjecture for detecting
historic past uv-rays/x-rays.

If the jog has a consistency among all jogged nuclei, this might be sampled and worked
back by general sparse-matrix techniques, -if the density over time of uv-rays/x-rays
were small enough to affect only a minute fraction, over the years in search.

Primarily polarity should be fairly consistent among the beads contacted by each
uv-ray/x-ray... and gradually drift over eons: This may be the first case of known
quantum drift over eons, as nuclei are too massive and inaccessible to be measured
in great individual precision compared to electron detection methods already regular
high-tech ... the gradual drift of polarity along a string of beaded nuclei becomes
a measure of eons-passed (but just how accurate it is measurable determines its
utility as a motion picture camera).

Image processing:

Information would be extractible by coherent uv-/x-laser-ray stimulation of photons:

Nonsecular deviation from coherence along each determined trace, auto-indicates
approximate time since its initial ray-incident.

(Secular deviations would be more by ray-polarization drift in local magnetic fields
changed or object-relocated over time since)

Given that five-body resonances do tend to dissipate more than two-body, even
though stable, yields a time factor that both resets atoms over eons, and allows a
commensurate time-scale to be applied to image results over epochs:
a continuum camera, non obscura.

Future technologies may get more-refined information more-quickly, using coincident
multi-laser ray-wave-fronts rather than ray-wave-beams, and catching the retroflected
photons in multi-phase arrays rather than back up the beam.

Future improvements may include circular-polarization of the laser-ray beam, to
most-accurately extract photon phase information with less polar-statistical triggering.

Visible resolution:

With 32 (suggested) 1-s-2-s contacts and useful coherence-phase precision measurable
to maybe a spatial eighth-to-sixteenth-cycle ranging over about spatial half-cycle
yielding 32 quadrits to octits, it can resolve rms-average 4@9-3@14 time "quanta" in an
overall temporal history of 15 years-1 mllion at 1/10 sec. time-precision -if- the
actual rate of 1-s-2-s phase-drift over years spans the same interval (tbd; it need not).

Conclusion:

Lastly in comment, it should be noted that what works for a screenplay story may not be
as directly practical or even possible in finished technology, but often leads thought
to consider the approach and find useful applications of similar nature ... Whence the
story genre of science-fiction is oft deemed valuable as an educational "workproblem",
much as mathematics relies-on for teaching, and expansive to contemporary perceptions.
It is not recommended above a proper education, but does usually track closely enough,
that it is not deemed, an obfuscating science-manifest-phenomenon--'ology delaying the
better school studies in the 'onomy. Taken as a study, it can be enlightening, leading
through the same reductive exactions required of science endeavor weeding-out the less
educational tangents of the commercial drama-fiction: Like the rockhound discovering a
field of gold, a deeper examination of the claim heightens, the interest in the mental
discernment of truth, over merely selling claims to a visually prurient discernment of
what may only be a fools-gold mineral deposit mislabeled and redacted as pulp-fiction.